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  • Social Work

    A Companion to Learning

    Edited by Karen Postle, Mark E F Lymbery ...
    ′This engaging and stimulating book is well placed to become a key text in many student social workers′ redaing lists′ - Journal of Interprofessional Care`[An] excellent book, abounding with conceptual insights, bursting with research and evidence-based reasoning, and pretty comprehensive in the spread of topics. [It] contains plenty of though-provoking material in nice sized chunks that ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Supporting people

    Towards a person-centred approach

    by Peter Beresford, Jennie Fleming, Michael Glynn, Catherine Bewley, Suzy Croft, Fran Branfield, Karen Postle ...
    There is widespread agreement that care and support services must change radically if they are to meet the rights and needs of the rapidly growing number of people who require them.For the first time, Supporting people explores with service users, practitioners, carers and managers what person-centred support means to them, what barriers stand in its way and how these can be overcome. It provides ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Social Work and the Transformation of Adult Social Care

    Perpetuating a Distorted Vision?

    by Mark Lymbery, Karen Postle ...
    Health and social care reforms and cuts in services and finances are part of the everyday fabric of the social work landscape. This book takes a critical approach to the transformation agenda and the implications for adult health and social care.Fully informed by theory, research, policy and legislation the book uses a problem-based learning approach through the application of case studies to ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • The short guide to social work

    by Robert Adams ...
    Series series Short Guides
    This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • An Introduction To Social Work Practice

    by Melanie Parris ...
    This workbook provides ideal preparation for students wanting to become self aware and self evaluative before moving into practice for the first time. ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Working Together in Children's Services

    by Damien Fitzgerald, Janet Kay ...
    The importance of interagency cooperation within children’s services has been highlighted within recent government strategy, including the Every Child Matters agenda, the development of Children’s Centres and the expansion of Extended Schools. Following tragic cases such as Victoria Climbie, the need for effective multi-disciplinary teamwork and interagency co-operation across all education and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Social Work

    Introducing Professional Practice

    by Patricia E Higham ...
    ′Comprehensive and user-friendly. The book is helpfully constructed around a number of key themes, starting with a good attempt to define social work from historical and international perspectives and moving on to address key issues concerning the practice, knowledge, values and skills required from contemporary social work in the UK. I believe social work students, newly qualified and experienced ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Service User and Carer Involvement in Education for Health and Social Care

    Promoting Partnership for Health

    by Michael McKeown, Lisa Malihi-Shoja, Soo Downe ...
    Series Book 9 - Promoting Partnership for Health
    Service user and carer engagement in health and social care, and in the education of practitioners in this area, is emerging as one of the most important new drivers within government policy in a number of countries. However, beyond the rhetoric, there are few guides that address the practicalities of setting up and running such a project.This book is unique in that it will appeal to practitioners ... Read more

    $70.00 USD

  • Key Concepts in Social Work Practice

    Edited by Tim Mann, Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead, Angela Olsen, Aidan Worsley ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This book is a quick and accessible reference guide to the key concepts that social work students and professionals need to understand to be effective. The authors place practice at the centre of the text, and include a host of case examples to bring the concepts to life.Examining the essential topics of the social work curriculum, the concepts covered relate to practice, theory, policy and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Becoming a Social Worker

    A Guide for Students

    by Caroline Humphrey ...
    This book explores the journey of becoming a social worker. It is based upon the experiences of social work students themselves and therefore provides a unique ′inside-out′ perspective. By showing that personal, professional and political elements are interwoven in students′ journeys, the author demonstrates that integrating these elements is vital to critical reflection and relationship-based ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World

    Beyond Technology

    Edited by Tim Fawns, Gill Aitken, Derek Jones ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume builds uponthe premise that online learning is not separate from the social and material world, and is made up of embodied, socially-meaningful experiences. It is founded on a “postdigital” perspective in which, much more than interactions with keyboards, computer screens, hardware or software, the learning that happens on online postgraduate programmes spills out into ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Advocacy And Social Work Practice

    by Tom Wilks ...
    This books fills the gap in the market for an accessible, general introduction to advocacy, specifically aimed at social workers. The book looks at the value base of advocacy as well as emphasising practice and skills such as assertiveness and negotiation. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD